Unclean, unknown and godfather

The book of the outstanding Russian ethnographer, folklorist and writer Sergei Vasilievich Maksimov (1831–1901) “Unclean, unknown and godfather”, first published in 1903, introduces the reader into the amazing world of Russian folk superstitions, beliefs, festivities and rites, where Christian motifs are, where Christian motifs are closely intertwined with pagan ones. In this work, which remains a valuable source of ethnographic information and for modern researchers, the scientific accuracy and depth of coverage of the material is combined with a vivid, colorful, living figurative language, in which the author leads a fascinating story about the characters of Russian demonology, about the magical forces of nature and about the holidays of the Christian calendar